In the December 2005 issue, Acupuncture Today published an article by Lisajeanne Potyk entitled "Eliminating Waste in Practice: Dr. Tan's Eight Magic Points for All Digestive Disorders." The article contained a sentence which appear as, "She is not the mother of a healthy, contented newborn." The sentence should have read, "She is now the mother of a healthy, contented newborn."
We offer our apologies to Ms. Potyk and our readers for the error.
In the January 2006 issue, Acupuncture Today reported on the status of several acupuncture bills, including Senate Bill 285, which was passedin Oregon and allows licensed acupuncturists to serve on the Oregon Pain Management Commission. In the original article, we had written that bill would require all licensed acupuncturists to complete a "pain management education program." Since that article appeared, we have been notified that only acupuncturists appointed to serve on the Pain Management Commission would be required to complete a pain management program, not every licensed acupuncturist in Oregon.
We apologize to our readers for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, beyond offering a few toxic medications. Then they tend to steer people with pain away from those health practitioners who are trained. This puts the acupuncture community on the front lines for addressing this epidemic.
When the body is going through a stressful event, the sympathetic system is activated. This activation will help the body with a life-threatening situation. If this state is activated for prolonged periods of time, it starts to consume energy. These traumatic events that generate stressors in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) will eventually become internalized.
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One of the things that makes acupuncture so difficult to measure is that the medicine actually does contain some esoteric aspects. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate the neurochemical reasoning behind why acupuncture points stimulate the autonomic nervous system to enact change However, not all the benefits of TCM can easily be measured by randomized, controlled trials. But does that make them fundamentally and definitively untrue?
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